Kind of describes me and my DD.
At work, I am passionate about doing the right thing and can be very intense. I had to learn the hard way to soften my approach/hide my emotions and controloutbursts. My fatal flaw which I have learned to tone down is not being able to mask my scorn for pretenders and slackers - no matter how many pay grades they may nominally be above me.
Being way too old of a dog at this point to learn any drastically new tricks I strive to teach me DD better coping/masking skills with varying degrees of success.
My approach is similar to Kerry's - step back and try to regain perspective. I ask my dd to ask herself whether she will think what is happening in the moment that's is upsetting will be significant in 1 years time, 1 month, 1 week etc. is the thing she wants worth the fuss and risk of alienating others, and so on.
Last edited by madeinuk; 04/24/15 04:53 AM.
